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DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENT ENGINEERING

Degrees offered:   

B.S. in Civil engineering
M.E. in Environmental Engineering
M.E. in Structural Engineering

Contacts:     

Dr. Farouk Mishu, Graduate/ Undergraduate Studies, fmishu@tnstate.edu
Dr. Tom Byl, Research, tdbyl@usgs.com

Summary:

The Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at Tennessee State University, College of Engineering, received approximately $500,000 funding between 2000 - 2004 from the DOD Small & Disadvantage Business office, administered through the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.  TSU partnered with the US Geological Survey (DOI) to develop a numerical model that could predict and quantify biodegradation of contaminants in karst aquifers (limestone with water-filled caves and conduits). They conducted their field studies at Ft. Campbell, KY where jet fuel has contaminated the groundwater.

Currently the faculty conducts research in the following areas:

• Bioremediation
• Numerical model to predict contaminant movement through karst conduits:Phytoremediation
• Pathogens in streams
• Biological and chemical process in karst aquifers

 

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING

Degrees Offered:   

B.S. Electrical Engineering
M.E. Biomedical Engineering (concentration0
M.E. Electrical engineering (concentration)
M.S. Computer and Information Systems Engineering
Ph.D. through the Integrated Ph. D. (CISE) program
Control and signal processing (concentration)
Computer and communication systems (concentration)

Contacts:     

Dr. Satinderpaul Singh Devgan, Undergraduate and Graduate Studies/Research, sdevgan@tnstate.edu

Research Areas:

Electrical Engineering

• Signal/ Image processing
• Intelligent control systems
• Artificial Intelligence tools NN/FL/GA
• Power systems
• Robotics

Biomedical Engineering

• Bioinformatics
• Health monitoring
• Image processing
• Biomedical signal processing
   

Computer and information systems engineering

• Systems engineering
• Wireless communication
• Cybersecurity

  

DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL AND MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING

Degrees Offered:   

B.S. Mechanical Engineering
M.E. Manufacturing Engineering (concentration)
Ph.D. through the Integrated Ph. D. (CISE) program
M.E.  Robotics and Computer integrated manufacturing (concentration)

Contacts:     

Dr. Hamid Hamidzadeh, Undergraduate and Graduate studies/Research, hhamidzadeh@tnstate.edu

Summary:

The Mechanical and Manufacturing engineering Department recently received a five year grant from Army Research office to establish a Center for Excellence in Battlefield Sensor Fusion. This is an interdisciplinary research and comprises of faculty and students from electrical, computer science and mechanical engineering departments. The department also received a patent jointly with Boeing Aerospace Corporation (U.S. Patent No. 6,947,875 B2).

The faculty conducts research in the following fields: 

Mechanical engineering

• Probabilistic design methodologies
• Simulation, modeling and optimization based design
• Multi-body dynamics
• Nonlinear dynamics
• Vibration control
   

Manufacturing engineering

• Flexible and intelligent manufacturing
• Human-machine interface
• Mobile robots
• Condition based maintenance
• AI technologies
• Sensor fusion

 

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE

Degrees Offered:   

B.S. Computer Science

Contacts:      

Dr. Amiri Gamshad, Undergraduate studies, agamshad@tnstate.edu
Dr. Ali Sekmen, Research, asekmen@tnstate.edu

Research areas:

• Parallel and distributed computing
• Software systems
• Adhoc networks
• Robotics
• Human-computer interaction
• Computational geometry
• Natural language processing
• Mobile robots
• Image processing